http://www.eduscan.info Searchs the best hand picked webpages for Education Thu, 01 Nov 2006 00:00:00 GMT Tony Bell http://www.eduscan.info Tueu, 16 Feb 2007 08:00:00 GMT Keyword searching in the Technology section has been made simpler by using Google programme. Keywords are now put on an expanding/collapsing Tree. Similar to the standard Folder - File layout. Tony Bell http://www.eduscan.info Fri, 2 Mar 2007 08:00:00 GMT 48K new visitors in 28 months. Tony Bell http://www.eduscan.info Tue, 9 Jan 2007 08:00:00 GMT Technology section has been up-dated to include Keyword searching. Technollogy has been broken down into 30 areas of knowledge to help searching. Tony Bell http://www.eduscan.info Thu, 4 Jan 2007 08:00:00 GMT The science section has been upgraded now with 46 sites and 13,571 pages. Different years are seperated into their own unique areas with relevant websites. Each one is seperately searched.<br /> <br />All the websites can be found on the forum. Topics for KS3 and 4 are listed with the number terms searched for each topic. Tony Bell http://www.eduscan.info Thu, 10 Dec 2006 08:00:00 GMT The Forum has been spammed by the Russians. It appears that Spam Bots can attack Bulletine Boards such as "YABB". My solution has been to add a security page where you have to create a password by choosing letters from words. It's a bit of a chore but it works. Tony Bell http://www.eduscan.info Thu, 14 Nov 2006 08:00:00 GMT Maths section has been added with 8 websites covering 1257 pages. <br /> <br /> Send me more good webpages to search. Tony Bell http://www.eduscan.info Thu, 14 Nov 2006 08:00:00 GMT Business section has been added with 10 websites covering 1376 pages. <br /> <br /> Please try out, It is possible to find out the number of terms searched and how many pages were found from a detailed log. <br /> <br /> Send me more good webpages to search. Tony Bell http://www.eduscan.info Thu, 01 Nov 2006 08:00:00 GMT The feedback to the first limited trial of my promotional leaflet was a list of web sites to set-up the Business section. A comment was that it was a great simple idea, and fitted in with remarks made by a chief examiner about the problem of internet searching. <br /> <br /> The Science section is my first objective as I know from experience that there are some excellent sites being used by teachers. So it over to you now to send me your sites. If you don't see your subject area, I'll set one up. Tony Bell http://www.eduscan.info Thu, 01 Nov 2006 08:00:00 GMT Edu Scan was launched on 1 Oct 2006. It is an extension of my first search engine DT Scan, see previous posts. <br /> <br /> I decided to set-up Edu Scan as it quickly became obvious that the simple search engine technology was easy to use for all other subjects. The 4000 pages of DT Scan only take 2 hours to re-index and it only has to be done every 3 - 6 months. Tony Bell http://www.dtscan.com/links.html Wed, 18 May 2005 08:00:00 GMT <p> DT Scan is similar to Google in appearance. Goto the Main Page and select 'Search' then type in your search word or phrase and hit the search button </p><p> If you have your own website, you can search directly from any page by adding the DT Scan Toolbar or an animated link graphic. Just copy the XHTML code from the 'Links' page, there are several versions. </p><p> Feedback shows that DT Scan is really helping students. For the first time, they can get a manageable quantity of quality results aimed at their need. 'Mild Steel' in Yahoo gives 316,000 results where as DT Scan gives 41. </p> Tony Bell http://www.dtscan.com/keywords.html Thu, 28 Apr 2005 08:00:00 GMT <p> DT Scan is inovative in itself as there is nothing like it in any subject. What is far more interesting is its development of the new method of 'Keyword' searching. </p><p> 'Design Technology has been broken down into 30 major categories; see 'Keyword Search'. These categories can be divided and then sub-divided again and again until you reach a single concept like 'Variable Resistors' 'Carrots'. </p><p> To search for a topic, you first look for the general area, tick a checkbox for the 'Keyword' and then search. </p><p> Classifying Design Technology is going to take sometime, your comments would be most welcome, contact me through 'About Us'. </p> Tony Bell http://www.dtscan.com/docs/bectahowto.html Tue, 08 Mar 2005 08:00:00 GMT <p> DT Scan produces a wide range of statistics. I can even find out who searched for a rude word. I have produced a list of search terms used over a two week period covering 1440 searches. This is sufficient to highlight the problems people have searching and I have also included the number of pages searched for each word or phrase. </p> # Search engines are not that clever. You have to understand how they work. <br /> # How - is ignored. Only Ask Jeeves can answer questions. <br /> # A, the, of, but etc are ignored if no 'Quotations Marks' are used. <br /> # UPPER and lower case letters are all treated the same. <br /> # All the words in the phrase - How beam Bridges were made - are searched separately generating 524 results. <br /> # Too complicated and long phrases will often get no results. <br /> # Put 'Quotation Marks' around two or more words to search that exact phrase. i.e. Product Design = 1278 hits but 'Product Design' = 37. <br /> # Putting 'Quotation Marks' around words can unfortunately produce the result 'product, Design' Two sentences separated by punctuation. <br /> # Try different combinations of words and the word order to reduce the number of results. Tony Bell http://www.dtscan.com/about.html Fri, 07 Jan 2005 08:00:00 GMT <p> <big>How DT Scan was born.</big> <br /> My major DT content site Tech it Out UK has over 200 edited links. To get one good website, I recon that I have looked at over 150, you can not expect pupils to do that. <br /> Some interesting things emerged, the same websites kept appearing. In the end I was able to come up with a list of the best websites for Design Technology. <br /> I started to use these websites when writing my own content. I soon got fed up searching each one in turn, so I converted my own internal search engine to search all these sites simultaneously. That's how DT Scan was born. <br /> DT Scan now searches 1800 pages in 10 UK websites produced especially for Schools including the well known BBC Bitesize. I contacted the BBC and they immediately added a link on their site. <br /> The list of search terms generated by the search engine will be a very useful source of information in the future. We will be able to produce information to match demand. This has never been done before.